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Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

Date of Birth: 18 June 1942
Place of Birth: Idutywa, Eastern Cape


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Press harder

Some ANC people (notably Moeletsi Mbeki Deputy President Thabo Mbeki's brother who has large property interests) would have preferred to set up an ANC newspaper and now say that the Independent group has not implemented ANC conditions including black equity and black directors...

The main critic of the media naturally enough is Thabo Mbeki...

A government Task Group on Communications (Comtask) when it was set up by Thabo Mbeki in 1995 seemed designed to blame themedia for the governments failure to get its message across...


Spiking Syria

Some compromise on South Africa's mooted arms sales to Syria may emerge from United States' Vice-President Al Gore's meeting with Deputy President Thabo Mbeki next month in Pretoria...


Worlds apart

Deputy President Thabo Mbeki the anointed successor to President Nelson Mandela is set to further consolidate his power-base in the ruling African National Congress prior to the party's national conference this December...


What's left of the left?

For Deputy President Thabo Mbeki' s circle Africanism is a way of redressing the wrongs of apartheid in a way that makes economic sense: this means everything from promoting black-owned companies encouraging trades unionists to become shareholders and financing massive investment in electrification and water supply...


Dissonant voices

Deputy President Thabo Mbeki told Africa Confidential that his country had a moral duty join any multilateral mission in the Great Lakes region provided that mission was strictly humanitarian...


Opening up the ANC

Deputy President and anointed heir Thabo Mbeki favours Jacob Zuma as his successor we hear...


Dust on the diamonds

Mandela is unequivocal about his retirement and speaks openly of his successor 'that talented young man ' 54-year-old Thabo Mbeki...


Commonwealth collapse

Abacha's closest advisors are now taking heart that the recent confusion in Pretoria's policy on Nigeria seems to be being resolved in favour of Thabo Mbeki's earlier posture of 'quiet diplomacy' and in this context they now view Nigeria's earlier largesse towards the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela as a good investment...


Too much truth 

Deputy President Thabo Mbeki who admits to meeting Kerzner just before the 1994 elections says such allegations are 'beneath contempt'...


Cyril the suit

He was the most plausible alternative to Thabo Mbeki as leader of the ANC after President Nelson Mandela stands down...


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